# Nikhil Srinivasan

> Cofounder & CEO of Infinite (YC W25), the global financial network for stablecoin payments.

Nikhil Srinivasan is the cofounder and CEO of Infinite (YC W25), the global financial network for stablecoin payments. Infinite gives businesses unified fiat and stablecoin accounts and global payment rails on top of a compliance system of intelligence, so counterparties are vetted once for the whole network. Before Infinite, Nikhil led the compliance and risk platform at Sardine and led product for Coinbase's crypto platform, which he joined in 2018 when Coinbase acquired Distributed Systems, the digital identity company he cofounded. Earlier, he did research at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Nikhil was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (Enterprise Technology, 2019) and to Stablecon's Stablecoins Most Influential 2026 list. He is an angel investor in Anthropic, OpenAI, Circle, and 50+ other startups, and lives in San Francisco.

## Key facts

- Role: Cofounder & CEO, Infinite (https://infinite.net)
- Company: Infinite: The global financial network built on a compliance system of intelligence. Y Combinator W25.
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Previously: Sardine, Coinbase, Distributed Systems, Wyss
- Recognition: Stablecon Stablecoins Most Influential 2026, Rising Influencer; Forbes 30 Under 30, Enterprise Technology (2019)
- Investing: Nikhil writes small angel checks at pre-seed and seed into founders building infrastructure: payments and financial rails, AI, and occasional bets in bio, space, and hardware.
- Contact: n@nvs.xyz
- Handle: @nvs (https://x.com/nvs)

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.nvs.xyz): Nikhil Srinivasan: Cofounder & CEO of Infinite (YC W25), the global financial network for stablecoin payments.
- [About](https://www.nvs.xyz/about): Bio, career timeline, and recognition.
- [Now](https://www.nvs.xyz/now): What Nikhil is focused on right now.
- [Writing](https://www.nvs.xyz/writing): Essays on stablecoins, payments, and building companies.
- [Investments](https://www.nvs.xyz/investments): Angel portfolio and how Nikhil invests.
- [Media](https://www.nvs.xyz/media): Press coverage, interviews, and podcasts.
- [Press kit](https://www.nvs.xyz/press): Bios, headshots, and company boilerplate for journalists and event organizers.
- [Contact](https://www.nvs.xyz/contact): How to reach Nikhil, routed by topic.
- [Experiments](https://www.nvs.xyz/experiments): Small things built for fun.

## Writing

- [The Digital Eurodollar](https://www.nvs.xyz/writing/the-digital-eurodollar): Why expanding access to dollar accounts is a national security asset (Jul 2026)
- [Starting Infinite](https://www.nvs.xyz/writing/starting-infinite): Finding my infinite game (Mar 2025)
- [Joining Coinbase](https://www.nvs.xyz/writing/joining-coinbase): Distributed Systems joins Coinbase (Aug 2018)

## Elsewhere

- [X](https://x.com/nvs): @nvs
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/nikhilsrinivasan)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/nvsio)
- [Substack](https://blog.nvs.xyz): newsletter and archive
- [Infinite](https://infinite.net): The global financial network built on a compliance system of intelligence.
- [RSS](https://www.nvs.xyz/rss.xml): feed of everything published on this site